netdev - Re: [net-next 4/6] e1000: configure and read MDI settings

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Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:37:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
CC:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <gospo@...hat.com>,
	<sassmann@...hat.com>, Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 4/6] e1000: configure and read MDI settings

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 18:17 -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Why don't you set ecmd->eth_tp_mdix_ctrl here?
> > 
> > If you also leave it as 0, it's impossible for userland to tell whether
> > the current mode was forced or automatically selected.
> 
> Thanks for the review, right now the get interface (and ethtool display) 
> doesn't support any way to report if the setting was forced or not.  I 
> didn't think about changing the get because I didn't want to modify the 
> userland reporting (I also figured it was a simple interface right now, 
> and didn't need changing, and was focused on the _set_ which is the part 
> fixing the users' reported bugs.)

Everything else you can change with ETHTOOL_SSET is also reported by
ETHTOOL_GSET; why would this be any different?

> I think the patches as they currently stand are okay, do you agree? I 
> would be glad to submit a followon to implement the new "get" interface if 
> we can hash out the interface changes, but I see no reason to gate these 
> patches.

You left this for 20 months, what's the hurry now?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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